grahamperrin

Untangling with Git, 2023-03-18

Prior to https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-doc/commit/6ea7740b027363bbf5ed106ab414953f5c2da15e.

Context: freebsd/freebsd-doc#134 (comment)

Key point

git -C /usr/doc pull --rebase upstream main

grahamperrin

Extended Regular Expression (ERE) trial and error

Rough notes following help from a human in #devguide in Discord for FreeBSD, https://discord.com/channels/727023752348434432/783418678279929896

Examples

Git commits to the FreeBSD ports tree may have an unpredictable number of spaces in the approval line

https://cgit.freebsd.org/ports/commit/?id=fc8a32e96a7a72096ed30d4abf0a0aa7b425c1c5 (2022-12-10)

grahamperrin

Accessibility

Preamble

Spun off from discussion of link underlining at https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=268426#c4

I aimed to perform accessibility checks on two pages in the FreeBSD documentation portal. Whilst preparing to use tools that were familiar to me, I decided to see what else might be useful.

A few findings

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#!/bin/sh
# Save this script at a suitable path, for example
# /usr/local/sbin/suspend.sh
# then edit /etc/rc.suspend to include the path.

# Allow detachment of a USB device that is used for a ZFS pool named
# Transcend.
#
while mount | grep Transcend 2>&1; do
   zpool export Transcend

grahamperrin

Working with a local copy of my fork of the FreeBSD documentation repository

Rough notes to self.

cd /usr/doc && rm -r *

– then remove hidden files.

git -C /usr clone -o grahamperrin -b patch-1 https://github.com/grahamperrin/freebsd-doc.git doc

grahamperrin

FreeBSD: Wi-Fi: suggested adapters

There are numerous suggestions, I'm not yet aware of any other collection.

If the list below grows to become useful, someone might like to adapt its content for the FreeBSD wiki.

Suggestions, in chronological order

https://forums.freebsd.org/posts/381779 (2018-03-17)

grahamperrin

mozilla/multi-account-containers#1617 (comment) began:

In my case with a Control-Click …

mozilla/multi-account-containers#1617 (comment) mentioned Facebook and Google.

Steps

1. Use about:profiles in Firefox 88 to create then launch a profile named 1617
2. add Firefox Multi-Account Containers 7.3.0

grahamperrin

FreeBSD boot failures

FreeBSD-13.0-RELEASE-amd64-bootonly.iso

Written to Verbatim STORE N GO PMAP, serial 07B7050762213D03

HP EliteDesk 800 G1 SFF

UEFI: success.

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Beginning to use Git for FreeBSD ports: a rough guide

Not for committers.

Please treat this page as work in progress during the transition to Git.

Preparations

1. rm /var/db/gitup/ports
2. rm -r /usr/ports/*

grahamperrin

Miscellaneous notes on my FreeBSD environments

/etc/profile

# grep -v \# /etc/profile
export EDITOR=/usr/local/bin/nano
export VISUAL=/usr/local/bin/nano
export TERM=xterm-256color
#